[Info-vax] How do I make zip, unzip etc. available to all users?

[Hans Vlems]

Yes, that is the proper way to do things. It is very tempting to put UNZIP in SYS$SYSTEM. 
If only because mc unzip "-V" * works almost as easily as under linux/unix.
All my systems have a small (2 GB) disk called APPLnn, where nn is the systems alloclass. The disk is mounted with an alias, so both DISK$APPLnn and DISK$APPL are created. Next, logical names are created like: APPL_TOOLS -> DISK$APPL:[APPL.TOOLS], same for _GAMES and _SYSMGR.
The [APPL. part is somewhat redundant but makes it easy to lift the entire collection to another system.
Running unzip of course becomes a longer command to type. However, if I didn't like typing long commands I'd have taken up Windows sysadmin as a hobby :)
Hans